My daughter just bought a laptop and she was looking for a cool case to carry it around in. Of course, when you have a specific idea you cannot find anything that even remotely resembles it. All she could find were dull boring black ordinary cases. That would just not do!

I decided to make her one as a Christmas present. Now...her favorite color is green and she loves owls. So I came up with this:

I still need to put a few finishing touches. I want to put eyes on the owl but I haven't found just the right buttons yet. But I wanted to go ahead and post it here before I wrapped it up to put under the tree.

I used quilters cotton. It is hard to tell from the pictures but I did use 2 different kinds of green. They are both lime green but the pattern is different. The owl is cotton as well. The straps and binding are out of this suede-y kind of fabric that I had in my stash. I used quilt batting for padding and stiffened it with InnerFuse, a double-sided stiff fusible interfacing.

I need to make a separate bag for the cords but I made sure that there is enough room inside the case to hold the cords, maybe a notepad, pens, etc. Whatever she needs to throw in there.